Tag: wii u

Finally! It’s time to put an end cap on this feature as I round out the last five songs from my Top 100 VGM! Of course, now I need to do my favorite soundtracks properly…my work is never done! lol Open the World (Part I), Culdcept, Kenji Ito, PS2, NEC/OmiyaSoft, 2002 This is a definite…

As reported by Retronauts, Konami has not ceased supporting the Virtual Console for the Wii U quite yet. Despite a quiet January, the company has once again uploaded more TG16 titles onto the platform today, and both are imports! While Irem’s Battle Chopper is the ideal kind of import — barely any text to worry…

As the Wii U rides off into the sunset, there’s been a somewhat steady trickling of Virtual Console releases over the past year to help give it a decent sendoff. Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of TurboGrafx titles from Konami, but quite a few Wii titles made the leap onto the service beginning late…

Normally I’m not huge on racing games — astute readers will notice I didn’t rank a single one on my Top 111. However, there are a few I do quite like, and we’re going to discuss two of them today! Mario and Sonic’s rivalry comes pretty damn close on the Wii U kart racing scene,…

As you might have guessed by my moving the NES and Super NES articles, I’m going to begin working on this series anew over here at LVLS. And it seems fitting to relaunch it with the unfortunate Wii U, a system that truly deserved better than the reality it got. I love the console. It’s…

I’m going to be writing some thoughts on the overall experience of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, which is extremely positive and will be joining my absolute favorites of all time, but there’s one notable design issue in the game that cramps up the entire open-world exploration notion the game nails so freaking well. And…

So. I’ve been pretty quiet this past week since Breath of the Wild ended up in my lap. Want some thoughts? I’ll try to keep any spoilers to a minimum (save a special section at the end I’ll clearly mark) in this discussion, but if you want just a quick summary of my impressions, here…

Well, the surprise N64 releases on the Wii U Virtual Console keep on coming. Two weeks back we had Harvest Moon 64, a game Natsume swore up and down wouldn’t be modernized, and now we have Hudson’s Bomberman 64. This has been on the top of my wish list for Virtual Console re-release ever since…

Update – Since I update this about once a month, I’ve dropped the old updates and made a couple small tweaks to make this easier on me to keep up with. Long-time (and I mean “before LVLs. shut down” long-time) readers might remember that I used to recommend Virtual Console games here. And while I’m…

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